Kolkata on Friday witnessed student violence with supporters of rival groups clashing over elections to the Manindra Chandra College.

In order to control the situation the police had to fire teargas shells in north Kolkata's Shyambazar on Friday evening.

Trouble broke out around 6 pm when supporters of the Left students union SFI and the Trinamool Chattra Parishad hurled stones and soda bottles at each other.

It took ten rounds of teargas and the deployment of the Rapid Action Force to disperse the clashing groups and calm the situation.

Earlier in the day, students of the Naba Ballygunge College at Kasba in south Kolkata threw bombs at each other and brought traffic to a grinding halt on parts of the busy Eastern Metropolitan Bypass.